Collection: Rosário O'Neill
Rosário O'Neill was born in Portimão, Portugal, and trained in business management. For many years she combined a career in business in the Algarve with painting, which she kept as a personal passion, sharing her work only with friends and family.
Without following the traditional routes of artistic promotion, she was discovered and invited to Milan in 2014 to take part in an exhibition of emerging artists from several countries, where her work was warmly received by specialists and critics. She went on to exhibit at the London Biennale and the Florence Biennale in 2015, at Artexpo New York in 2016, in a solo exhibition at Artifact Gallery in New York in 2018 and in a solo exhibition at Fundação Altice in Lisbon in 2019.
Today, most of her clients, of many nationalities, come directly to her studio in Sintra, where she works mainly on commission. Canvas, fabric, glass, walls or wood: every surface becomes a new challenge. Her practice also includes restoration and digital drawing, which can be printed on a variety of materials.
Her painting ranges from figurative work, including portraits that reference people's life stories, to abstraction. Her inspiration comes from travel, exhibitions and the people she meets along the way. She also runs an interior decoration practice with her own team, giving clients' existing furniture a new life within more contemporary, comfortable and practical homes.
